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- Aaboe, Asger
- Abbe, Ernst
- Abraham bar Hiyya
- Abu'l-Wafa al-Buzjani
- Adams, John Couch
- Adelard of Bath
- Adler, August
- Adrianus, Romanus
- Aepinus, Franz
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Airy, George
- Ajima, Naonobu
- al-Amili, Baha'
- al-Banna, al-Marrakushi
- al-Battani, Abu Abdallah
- al-Biruni, Abu Arrayhan
- al-Haitam, Abu Ali
- al-Haytham, Abu Ali
- al-Jayyani, Abu
- al-Kashi, Ghiyath
- al-Khalili, Shams
- al-Khayyami, Omar
- al-Khazin, Abu
- al-Khujandi, Abu
- al-Khwarizmi, Abu
- al-Kuhi, Abu
- al-Maghribi, Muhyi
- al-Mahani, Abu
- al-Marrakushi, ibn al-Banna
- al-Nayrizi, Abu'l
- al-Quhi, Abu
- al-Samarqandi, Shams
- al-Samawal, Ibn
- al-Sijzi, Abu
- al-Tusi, Nasir
- al-Tusi, Sharaf
- Alasia, Cristoforo
- Albategnius (al-Battani)
- Alcuin of York
- Alfvén, Hannes
- Alhazen (al-Haitam)
- Ambartsumian, Victor
- Amili, Baha' al
- Ananias of Shirak
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
- Anaximander of Miletus
- Andoyer, Henri
- Apian, Peter
- Apianus, Petrus
- Apollonius of Perga
- Arago, François
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Aristotle
- Aryabhata I
- Aryabhata II
- Atwood, George
- Aurillac, Gerbert of
- Autolycus of Pitane
- Auzout, Adrien
- Avicenna, Abu Ali
- Ayyangar, A
- Babbage, Charles
- Bäcklund, Victor
- Bacon, Roger
- Baha' al-Amili
- Baillaud, Édouard
- Baker, Henry
- Ball, Robert
- Banachiewicz, Tadeusz
- Banna, al-Marrakushi al
- Banneker, Benjamin
- Banu Musa brothers
- bar Hiyya, Abraham
- Barbier, Joseph Émile
- Bartholin, Erasmus
- Battani, Abu al-
- Beaugrand, Jean
- Beaune, Florimond de
- Beg, Ulugh
- ben Ezra, Abraham
- ben Gerson, Levi
- ben Tibbon, Jacob
- Bennewitz, Peter
- Bernoulli, Daniel
- Bernoulli, Jacob
- Bernoulli, Johann (III)
- Bessel, Wilhelm
- Bessy, Bernard Frénicle de
- Bethe, Hans
- Betz, Martha
- Bhaskara I
- Bhaskara II
- Bhaskaracharya
- Biancani, Giuseppe
- Bidone, Giorgio
- Bigourdan, Guillaume
- Billy, Jacques de
- Binet, Jacques
- Biot, Jean-Baptiste
- Biruni, Abu al
- Blackburn, Hugh
- Bliss, Nathaniel
- Boethius, Anicus
- Bondi, Hermann
- Bonnycastle, John
- Borelli, Giovanni
- Boscovich, Ruggero
- Bougainville, Louis de
- Bouguer, Pierre
- Boulliau, Ismael
- Bouvard, Alexis
- Bowditch, Nathaniel
- Bradley, James
- Brahe, Tycho
- Brahmadeva
- Brahmagupta
- Brashman, Nikolai
- Briggs, Henry
- Brill, Alexander von
- Bring, Erland
- Brinkley, John
- Brioschi, Francesco
- Briot, Charlese
- Brocard, Henri
- Brown, Ernest
- Brück, Hermann
- Bruno, Francesco Faà di
- Bruns, Heinrich
- Buffon, Georges Comte de
- Bullialdus, Ishmaël
- Burckhardt, Johann
- Bürgi, Joost
- Byrd, Mary
- Callippus
- Campanus of Novara
- Cannon, Annie
- Cantelli, Francesco
- Caramuel, Juan
- Carmichael, Robert
- Cassini de Thury, César-F (Cassini III)
- Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (Cassini I)
- Cassini, Jacques (Cassini II)
- Cassini, Jean-Dominique (Cassini IV)
- Castillon, Johann
- Catalan, Eugène
- Cataldi, Pietro
- Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
- Cavalieri, Bonaventura
- Cayley, Arthur
- Celsius, Anders
- Ch'ung Chi Tsu
- Chandrasekhar, Subrah.
- Chang Heng
- Chapman, Sydney
- Chasles, Michel
- Chauvenet, William
- Chazy, Jean
- Cherry, Thomas
- Chi Tsu Ch'ung
- Chongzhi, Zu
- Chunfeng, Li
- Clausen, Thomas
- Clavius, Christopher
- Cleomedes
- Clerke, Agnes
- Cockle, James
- Coley, Henry
- Conon of Samos
- Contractus, Hermann
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Cosserat, Eugène
- Cotes, Roger
- Coulomb, Charles de
- Cowling, Thomas
- Cunitz, Maria
- Cunningham_Susan
- Cusa, Nicholas of
- da Silva, Daniel
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Danti, Egnatio
- Darmois, Georges
- Darwin, George
- Davies, Paul
- de Beaune, Florimond
- de Bessy, Frénicle
- de Billy, Jacques
- de Bougainville, Louis
- de Coulomb, Charles
- de Fontenelle, Bernard
- De Gan
- de La Hire, Philippe
- de Molières, Joseph
- de Sitter, Willem
- de Sluze, René
- de Tinseau, D'Amondans
- de Wronski, Josef
- Dechales, Claude
- Dee, John
- Delambre, Jean Baptiste
- Delaunay, Charles
- Delgado, João
- della Faille, Jan-Karel
- Delsarte, Jean
- Democritus of Abdera
- Descartes, René
- di Bruno, Francesco Faà
- Digges, Thomas
- Dingle, Herbert
- Dionis du Séjour, A
- Dirksen, Enno
- Doppelmayr, Johann
- Doppler, Christian
- Downing, Arthur
- Duarte, Francisco
- Dürer, Albrecht
- Eckert, Wallace J
- Eddington, Arthur
- Edgerton, Winifred Merrill
- Emerson, William
- Encke, Johann
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene
- Erlang, Agner
- Esclangon, Ernest
- Euclid of Alexandria
- Eudemus of Rhodes
- Eudoxus of Cnidus
- Euler, Leonhard
- Eutocius of Ascalon
- Everett, Alice
- Ezra, Rabbi Ben
- Faà di Bruno, Francesco
- Fabri, Honoré
- Faille, Charles de La
- Fatou, Pierre
- Feldbau, Jacques
- Ferrel, William
- Fèvre, Jean Le
- Fiedler, Wilhelm
- Filon, Louis N G
- Fincke, Thomas
- Fine, Oronce
- Finsler, Paul
- Fizeau, Hippolyte
- Flamsteed, John
- Fleming, Williamina
- Folie, François
- Fontenelle, Bernard de
- Fourcy, Louis de
- Fox Talbot, Henry
- Fraenkel, Adolf
- Francoeur, Louis
- Frenet, Jean
- Frenicle de Bessy, B
- Freundlich, Finlay
- Friedmann, Alexander
- Frisi, Paolo
- Frisius, Regnier Gemma
- Fuss, Nicolai
- Galileo Galilei
- Gamboa, Graciano Ricalde
- Gan De
- Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne
- Gassendi, Pierre
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Geber
- Gellibrand, Henry
- Geminus
- Gemma Frisius, Regnier
- Geng Zhi Zu
- Gerbert of Aurillac
- Gergonne, Joseph
- Gerson, Levi ben
- Gersonides
- Gherard of Cremona
- Ghetaldi, Marino
- Glaisher, J W Lee
- Golius
- Gompertz, Benjamin
- Gongora, Siguenza y
- Gool, Jacob
- Govindasvami
- Gravesande, Willem 's
- Greaves, John
- Greaves, William
- Gregory, David
- Gregory, James
- Gregory, Olinthus
- Grimaldi, Francesco
- Grosseteste, Robert
- Guangqi, Xu
- Guenther, Adam
- Guldin, Paul
- Gunter, Edmund
- Guo Shoujing
- Guthrie, William
- Gysel, Julius
- H'siao-t'ung, Wang
- Hadamard, Jacques
- Hadley, John
- Haitam, Abu Ali al-
- Halley, Edmond
- Hamilton, William R
- Harlay, Amélie
- Harriot, Thomas
- Haselgrove, Brian
- Haughton, Samuel
- Hausdorff, Felix
- Hawking, Stephen
- Hayes, Ellen
- Haytham, Abu Ali al
- Heath, Thomas
- Heegaard, Poul
- Heine, Eduard
- Hellins, John
- Hellman, Doris
- Heng, Zhang
- Heraclides of Pontus
- Herglotz, Gustav
- Hermann of Reichenau
- Heron of Alexandria
- Herschel, Caroline
- Herschel, John
- Herschel, William
- Hevelius, Elisabetha
- Hevelius, Johannes
- Hill, George
- Hipparchus
- Hippias of Elis
- Hire, Philippe de La
- Hiyya, Abraham bar
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hodge, William
- Holmboe, Bernt
- Holywood, John of
- Hong, Liu
- Hong, Luoxia
- Hooke, Robert
- Horrocks, Jeremiah
- Hoyle, Fred
- Hsu Guangqi
- Hubble, Edwin
- Humbert, Pierre
- Huygens, Christiaan
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- ibn al-Banna
- ibn Iraq, Mansur
- ibn Labban, Kushyar
- ibn Qurra, Thabit
- ibn Sina
- ibn Sinan, Ibrahim
- ibn Tibbon, Jacob
- ibn Yunus, Abu'l-Hasan
- ibn Yusuf Ahmed
- Ibrahim, ibn Sinan
- Iraq, Mansur ibn
- Ivory, James
- Jabir ibn Aflah
- Jackson, John
- Jafar, Abu al-Khazin
- Jamshid, al-Kashi
- Jayyani, Abu al
- Jeans, James
- Jeffreys, Bertha
- Jeffreys, Harold
- John of Holywood
- Johnson, Katherine
- Juecheng, Mei
- Jungius, Joachim
- Jyesthadeva
- Kaestner, Abraham
- Kähler, Erich
- Kahn, Franz
- Kamalakara
- Karpinski, Louis
- Kashi, Ghiyath al
- Kästner, Abraham
- Katahiro, Takebe
- Keill, John
- Kelvin, Lord
- Kepler, Johannes
- Khalili, Shams al
- Khayyam, Omar
- Khazin, Abu Jafar al
- Khujandi, Abu al
- Khwaja, Nasir
- Khwaja-yi, Tus1
- Khwarizmi, Abu al-
- Kirch, Maria
- Kirchhoff, Gustav
- Kline, Morris
- Knorr, Wilbur
- Koopman, E Hevelius
- Korteweg, Diederik
- Kramp, Christian
- Krebs, Nicholas
- Kruskal, Martin
- Kryffs, Nicholas
- Kua, Shen
- Kuang-ch'i, Hsu
- Kuhi, Abu al-
- Kulik, Yakov
- Kuo Shoujing
- Kushyar, ibn Labban
- La Faille, Charles de
- La Hire, Philippe de
- Labban, Kushyar ibn
- Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis
- Lacroix, Sylvestre
- Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
- Lalande, Amélie Harlay
- Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme
- Lalla
- Lambert, Johann
- Lame, Hermann the
- Lansberge, Philippe van
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon
- Lavanha, Joao Baptista
- Le Fèvre, Jean
- Le Paige, Constantin
- Le Verrier, Urbain
- Leavitt, Henrietta
- Lefebure, Louis
- Legendre, Adrien-Marie
- Lemaître, Georges
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lepaute, Nicole-Reine
- Levi ben Gerson
- Lexell, Anders
- Li Chunfeng
- Li Shanlan
- Linfoot, Hubert
- Liouville, Joseph
- Liu Hong
- Lobachevsky, Nikolai
- Lueroth, Jacob
- Luoxia Hong
- Lüroth, Jacob
- Machin, John
- Madhava, Sangamagramma
- Madwar, Mohammed
- Maghribi, Muhyi al
- Magini, Giovanni
- Magnitsky, Leonty
- Mahani, Abu al
- Manfredi, Eustachio
- Manfredi, Gabriele
- Mansion, Paul
- Mansur ibn Ali, Abu
- Marinus of Neapolis
- Marrakushi, al
- Maskelyne, Nevil
- Mästlin, Michael
- Mathieu, Claude-Louis
- Maunder, Annie
- Maupertuis, Pierre de
- Mayer, Tobias
- Mayr, Simon
- McCrea, William
- McVittie, George
- Méchain, Pierre
- Meders, Alfreds
- Mei Juecheng
- Mei Wending
- Mellin, Hjalmar
- Menelaus of Alexandria
- Mengoli, Pietro
- Mercator, Nicolaus
- Merrill, Winifred
- Milne, E A
- Mineur, Henri
- Mises, Richard von
- Mitchell, Maria
- Möbius, August
- Molières, Joseph Privat de
- Mollweide, Karl
- Molyneux, Samuel
- Monte, Guidobaldo del
- Montucla, Jean
- Moore, Jonas
- Morin, Jean-Baptiste
- Moser, Jürgen
- Mostowski, Andrzej
- Moulton, Forest
- Mouton, Gabriel
- Muhaqqiq-i, Nasir
- Müller, Johann
- Mydorge, Claude
- Nassau, Jason
- Nayrizi, Abu'l al
- Neile, William
- Nekrasov, Aleksandr
- Nevanlinna, Rolf
- Newcomb, Simon
- Newson, Mary
- Newton, Isaac
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Nicollet, Jean-Nicolas
- Nilakantha, Somayaji
- Noether, Max
- Norlund, Niels
- O'Brien, Matthew
- O'Connell, Daniel
- O'Raifeartaigh, Lochlainn
- Oenopides of Chios
- Omar Khayyam
- Öpik, Ernst
- Orr, William
- Osipovsky, Timofei
- Paderborn, Reinher of
- Paige, Constantin Le
- Pappus of Alexandria
- Paramesvara
- Paton, Williamina Fleming
- Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia
- Peacock, George
- Peirce, Benjamin
- Peirce, Charles
- Pell, John
- Petit, Pierre
- Peurbach, Georg
- Pfaff, Johann
- Piazzi, Giuseppe
- Picard, Émile
- Pishmish, Paris
- Pitiscus, Bartholomeo
- Plana, Giovanni
- Playfair, John
- Plemelj, Josip
- Plücker, Julius
- Plummer, Henry
- Poincaré, J Henri
- Poisson, Siméon
- Poleni, Giovanni
- Pollio, Vitruvius
- Pólya, George
- Poretsky, Platon
- Posidonius of Rhodes
- Privat de Molières, Joseph
- Proclus Diadochus
- Prophatius
- Ptolemy
- Puiseux, Pierre
- Puiseux, Victor
- Purser, John
- Pythagoras of Samos
- Qadi Zada, al-Rumi
- Quetelet, Adolphe
- Quhi, Abu al
- Qurra, Thabit ibn
- Ramchundra, Ramchundra
- Ramsden, Jesse
- Ramus, Peter
- Recillas, Félix
- Recillas, Paris Pishmish
- Regiomontanus Johann
- Reichenau, Hermann of
- Reinher of Paderborn
- Reinhold, Erasmus
- Reiziņš, Linards
- Rheticus, Georg Joachim
- Ricalde, Graciano
- Ricci, Matteo
- Riccioli, Giovanni
- Richer, Jean
- Righini, Guglielmo
- Rittenhouse, David
- Roach, Gary
- Robb, Richard
- Robertson, Howard
- Rocard, Yves-André
- Rocha, Monteiro
- Rodriguez, Argelia Velez-
- Romanus, Adrianus
- Roomen, Adriaan van
- Routh, Edward
- Ruan Yuan
- Russell, Annie Maunder
- Sacrobosco, Johannes de
- Sadler, Donald
- Samarqandi, Shams al
- Samawal, Ibn al
- Sampson, Ralph
- Sang, Edward
- Sankara, Narayana
- Saunderson, Nicholas
- Savary, Félix
- Savasorda
- Savile, Henry
- Scheiner, Christoph
- Scherk, Heinrich
- Schickard, Wilhelm
- Schmidt, Otto
- Schouten, Jan
- Schwarzschild, Karl
- Scot, Michael
- Scott, Elizabeth
- Scotus, Michael
- See, Thomas
- Segal, Irving
- Seidel, Philipp von
- Serret, Joseph
- sGravesande, Willem
- Shanlan, Li
- Shapley, Harlow
- Shapley, Martha
- Sharp, Abraham
- Shen Kua
- Shoujing, Guo
- Sidler, Georg
- Siguenza, y Gongora
- Sijzi, Abu al
- Silva, Daniel da
- Silva, José
- Simplicius
- Simpson, Thomas
- Sina, ibn
- Sinan ibn Thabit
- Sirakuni, Anania
- Sitter, Willem de
- Skorokhod, Anatolii
- Slater, Noel
- Slebarski, Tadeusz
- Sluze, René de
- Somerville, Mary
- Sommerfeld, Arnold
- Sommerville, Duncan
- Speiser, Andreas
- Spence, William
- Sperry, Pauline
- Spitzer, Lyman
- Spottiswoode, William
- Sripati
- Staudt, Carl Georg C von
- Steggall, John
- Stevin, Simon
- Stewart, Matthew
- Stieltjes, Thomas Jan
- Stirling, James
- Stormer, Fredrik
- Subbotin, Mikhail
- Sundman, Karl
- Suter, Heinrich
- Swan, Henrietta Leavitt
- Swirles, Bertha Jeffreys
- Sylvester II (Gerbert)
- Tacquet, Andrea
- Takebe Katahiro
- Talbot, Henry Fox
- Tannery, Paul
- Teixeira, Gomes
- Thabit ibn Qurra, Abu'l
- Theaetetus of Athens
- Theodorus of Cyrene
- Theodosius of Bithynia
- Theon of Alexandria
- Theon of Smyrna
- Thiele, Thorvald
- Thomson, James
- Thomson, William (Kelvin)
- Tibbon, Jacob ben
- Tinseau, Charles
- Tinsley, Beatrice
- Tisserand, Félix
- Torricelli, Evangelista
- Troughton, Edward
- Tsu Ch'ung Chi
- Tsu Keng
- Tusi, Nasir al
- Tusi, Sharaf al
- Ulugh Beg
- van Lansberge, Philip
- van Roomen, Adriaan
- Vandiver, Harry
- Varahamihira, Varahamihira
- Velez-Rodriguez, Argelia
- Verhulst, Pierre
- Verrier, Urbain Le
- Viète, François
- Vijayanandi
- Vince, Samuel
- Vinci, Leonardo da
- Vitali, Giuseppe
- Vitruvius
- von Brill, Alexander
- von Mises, Richard
- von Seidel, Philipp
- von Staudt, Karl
- Wafa al-Buzjani Abu'l
- Wallace, William
- Wang H'siao-t'ung
- Wang Xiaotong
- Ward, Seth
- Waterston, John
- Weinstein, Alexander
- Wending, Mei
- Werner, Johann
- Whiston, William
- White, Henry
- Whiteside, Tom
- Whitney, Mary
- Whittaker, Edmund
- Wilczynski, Ernest
- Wilson, Alexander
- Wilson, Edwin
- Winckelmann, Maria
- Winlock, Joseph
- Winlock_Anna
- Winston, Mary Newson
- Wintner, Aurel
- Wittich, Paul
- Wolf, Rudolph
- Woodhouse, Robert
- Woodward, Robert
- Wren, Christopher
- Wronski, Hoëné
- Wussing, Hans
- Xiaotong, Wang
- Xu Guangqi
- Xu Yue
- Yavanesvara
- Yuan, Ruan
- Yue, Xu
- Yunus, Abu'l-Hasan ibn
- Yusuf Ahmed
- Zada, al-Rumi Qadi
- Zenodorus
- Zhang Heng
- Zhao Youqin
- Zu Chongzhi
- Zu Geng
- Zu Xuan
- Zwicky, Fritz